Existing rural health schemes will be maintained and there's money for general practice, but the Rural Doctors Association says this week's Federal Budget was a case of "the good, the bad and the ugly" for regional Australia. The Association is disappointed that many of its priorities were not ...

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Australian meat processors are skeptical there will be enough cattle for a new live export market to China. It comes as the Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce signs a deal to clear the way for up to one million head for the feeder and slaughter market, valued at $1 billion a year. And while ...

Since the suspension of the live cattle trade to Indonesia in 2011 Australia's northern beef industry has made a slow recovery but as the north gears up for the mustering season there's finally a feeling of hope in the air....